65th Street Construction On Sale Now Fincher SE: Fincher in Person SE: Playtime SE: Red Gold DOC 2009 MET Live: La Rondine NY Jewish Film Festival SE: Remembering Richard SE: Lemon Tree Positif Celebrates... Ongoing Programs Film Comment Selects Young Friends of Film Green Screens MET Live Season Cinematic Opera Browse Calendar Past Programs Furman Gallery Past Shows Modern Movie Poster Chermayeff Irving Thalberg Rappaport Pinewood Metelkova Satoshi Kon HRW CliCiak Klaus Lucka Amy Arbus Dee-Dee Does Utopia Human Rights Watch Silvano Campeggi African Cinema Black Woman Prison Art HU Film Posters Robin Holland Pablo Cano Peter A. Simon Marcus Bleasdale K. Kieslowski Mark Morris Hirschfeld II Hirschfeld I Mary Ellen Mark Eric Rhein Theater Rental Theater Information Press Office Sign up for FSLC ReelNews Fred Astaire in The Royal Wedding Highlights of Hirschfeld's Hollywood, Part One Jan 1 - 31 Exhibit in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater The name Al Hirschfeld has been synonymous with the theater since his first theatrical drawing was published in December 1926. By then, he was a six-year veteran of movie studio art departments, having already worked for Goldwyn, Universal, Pathé, Selznick, Fox, First National, and Warner Bros. "I lived in the movies," he says of his early years, and it was in films that he discovered his gift of caricature. Highlights from Hirschfeld's nine decades of film art are presented in Hirschfeld's Hollywood, an exhibition circulated by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The exhibition celebrates an artist whose works of serious graphic composition, informed by a distinctly modern aesthetic and leavened by wit, have helped to define the way Main Street America, and eventually the world, looks at the movies.